Definition of America

1.Noun. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776.

Literary usage of America

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.Anglo-American Isthmian Diplomacy, 1815-1915 by Mary Wilhelmine Williams (1916)"CHAPTER I. THE BRITISH IN CENTRAL america BEFORE. For more than a century before
the government of the United States came into existence, the subjects of ..."

2.Field Book of Birds of the Southwestern United States by Roger Tory Peterson, Gilbert Haven Trafton, Luther E. Wyman, Elizabeth F. Burnell (1916)"BIRD FRIENDS CHAPTER I BIRD TRAVELERS Discovery of america. The subject of bird
migration is of special interest to americans, because it is probable that ..."

3.The Constitutional History of the United States, 1765-1895 by Francis Newton Thorpe (1898)"A CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF THE americaN PEOPLE CHAPTER I THE STATE IN the
evolution of democracy in america two large processes were to be worked out—the ..."

4.Problems in Pan Americanism by Samuel Guy Inman (1921)"PROBLEMS IN PAN americaNISM Chapter I ASSETS OF LATIN america The opening of the
Panama Canal changed the map of the world. ..."

5.The Golden State: A History of the Region West of the Rocky Mountains by Rolander Guy McClellan (1872)"THE GOLDEN STATE CHAPTER I. Discovery of america-Earliest Colonization-Columbus'
Voyages -Spanish in South and Central america-Cortes m Mexico -JOo and ..."

6.A History of the United States in Chronological Order from A.D. 432 to the by Robert James Belford, Frederick Thomas Jones (1886)"The native races of northern Asia and the Indians of america—both North and
South—are classed as belonging to ;he same Mongoloid variety ..."

7.A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon (1897)"The heroic discovery of america, at the close of the fifteenth century after
Christ, has compelled the generous and just admiration of the world; ..."